Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes


Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset


We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset


We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset


We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset


We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset


We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset


Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset


To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset


To live is to feel oneself lost. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset


To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset


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